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Heda Margolius Kovály

Born

in Czech Republic

September 15, 1919

Died

December 05, 2010

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Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer and translator. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died. She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in. Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor. As the wife of disgraced man she married again and she and her husband were treated badly. They left for the US in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries. She published her biography in 1973. She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.

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	Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály, Helen Epstein (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Franci Rabinek Epstein (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 3,626 ratings — published 1973 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loď komediantů by Edna Ferber, Heda Margolius Kovály (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 1926 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály, Alex Zucker (Translator) 3.43 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prague Farewell 4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Láska v temné ulici by Irwin Shaw, Heda Margolius Kovály (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History by Heda Margolius Kovály, Ivan Margolius (Translator), Helena Třeštíková (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nevina 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Do Not Want to Remember: Auschwitz, 1941-Prague, 1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály, E. Kohak (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury.”
― Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

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“She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called “a clearly-defined world view.”
― Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

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“If everyone were a hero, what would courage be worth?”
― Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

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